335 Quotes by Bret Easton Ellis

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.

You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they'll say about you in the future.

I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.

Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever

I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.

I want to take you away from this," I say, motioning around the kitchen, spastic. "From sushi and elves and... STUFF.

You don't market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It's a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what you do when you're confronted by criticism. You just don't listen to it.

People just... disappear," he says. "The Earth just opens up and swallows people," I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. "Eerie." Kimball yawns, stretching. "Really eerie." "Ominous." I nod my agreement. "It's just"- he sights, exasperated- "futile.